History of Music Theory: Global Approaches and Perspectives

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Across countless geographically and temporally distinct cultures, people have developed accounts of musical materials and techniques: what they believe music is, what it is made of, and how. People have also marveled at-and sought to comprehend-music's mysterious power to affect us, and have offered speculative theories and practical pedagogies in response. This course offers an introduction to some influential ideas, practices, and traditions of theorizing music, broadly construed, in various world cultures at distinct moments.